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The only thing that gets me is the high schooler who sees this on TV or when visiting the sites, and all of the sudden becomes the patron saint of internet ethics while making his life mission to imform the masses of what he just found out 5 seconds ago.

This is the type of action that leads to revolt. When you start trying to oppress people and take away their freedom you are in big trouble as a government, this is different to a place like China where they have never experienced freedom and a majority don't even know they are being censored, this is going after some of the most educated people and trying to stop them being able to express themselves...

It's an entirely dangerous and unconstitutional move but ultimately the people behind it are those people that control the government and eventually they will get what they want, all this will do is make it take a bit longer and cost a bit more.

Frankly, this is awesome. I wish we could talk politics in here, because I have quite a bit to rant about regarding this.

If Facebook/Twitter put up an equivalent of any of the other anti-SOPA/PIPA articles/information in place of its entire website for an entire day, far more than enough would know about it, and be pissed off.

Although I'd be fair assessment that the majority of active profiles on those accounts have some kind of information about SOPA in their news feed, that doesn't mean that the account holders are reading them. I personally doubt for instance many teenagers have clicked and read a link.

But even if it didn't shut down the site, just something simple but unavoidable in the news feed, top bar, etc. would also easily help.